Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated on Wednesday that the
United States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders
cancer, after Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez joined the list of
presidents diagnosed with the disease.

It was a typically controversial statement by Venezuela’s socialist
leader, who underwent surgery in June to remove a tumor from his pelvis.
But he stressed that he was not making any accusations, just thinking
aloud.

“It would not be strange if they had developed the technology to
induce cancer and nobody knew about it until now … I don’t know. I’m
just reflecting,” he said in a televised speech to troops at a military
base.

“But this is very, very, very strange … it’s a bit difficult to
explain this, to reason it, including using the law of probabilities.”

Chavez, Fernandez, Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo, Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff
and former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have all been
diagnosed recently with cancer. All of them are leftists.